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Lulu.com:

An on-demand publishing tool for books, e-books, music, images, movies and calendars.
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There is no set-up fee and no minimum order to publish and sell on Lulu.

Not an entirely new idea, but one I think is bound to be replicated in various forms by many others, soon.

(via Jots)

At last.

Jon Udell’s podcasts are finally available for subscription in iTunes.

A definite must!

Must read Jason Kottke’s thought-provoking look ahead: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?

• You’re probably wondering why Yahoo bought Konfabulator
• An update on Google Browser, GooOS and Google Desktop
• A platform that everyone can stand on and why Apple, Microsoft, and, yes, even Google will have to change their ways to be a part of it
• The next killer app: desktop Web servers
• Does the Mozilla Foundation have the vision to make Firefox the most important piece of software of this decade?
• Web 3.0
• Finally, the end of Microsoft’s operating system dominance

(via Slashdot comment)

ideologi

What started out as a search for a community of minds has manifested itself as the crystalized vision of a universal exchange of ideas
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>ideologi is an Internet-based system that facilitates ad hoc brainstorming sessions (called Exchanges) that individuals and organizations around the world can join. Users (called Participants) of ideologi can either submit answers to a countless number of active Exchanges, or submit their own questions to initiate an Exchange within ideologi.

> If a participant is interested in creating an Exchange in ideologi, a participant assumes the role of an Initiator by submitting the specifics of the Exchange for approval by Ideologi Foundation.

(Hat tip to unmediated)

Tired of coming to FeedBurner to analyze your stats? Use the API. Tired of “logging in” via a “browser” to “edit” your feed “settings”? Use the API.

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog has the lowdown.

(via Read/Write Web - a great post with lots more on Web 2.0, API’s and Mash-Ups)

I’ve missed quite a bit happening out there lately. Here’s an interesting example found on Library clips: a helpfull summary of Tagifieds with feedback from the developer and founder of the service.

Must read his latest posts on Technorati search hacks and Simpy too.

Good value!

From the Information Dynamics Laboratory comes The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems

…the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.

(via unmediated)

David Kirkpatrick of FORTUNE: Cashing in on RSS

You know that blogs are cool, but do you know that blogs, and a related technology called RSS, may hold the future for software? That’s the view of Jim Moore, a longtime friend of mine, whom I talked to earlier this week. Moore and his three business partners caused quite a stir last month, when they announced that they have raised $100 million for the first-ever venture capital fund devoted to these technologies, called RSS Investors.

While rssinvestors.com is under construction, another interesting reference from the article is to Flock.

(via Scripting News)

Spread Firefox quotes the latest worldwide numbers from a French study by Xiti Monitor.

With an overall 14.83% market share in Europe, Finland is at the top with a whopping 31%, followed by Germany at 24.5%. Then comes the Czech Republic, Croatia and Poland, all with more than 20%. Compared with only 11,78% in North America, this is at least one area where Europe leads the way.

Go Firefox!

(via digg/software)

Update: 08.08

Type about:mozilla in the Firefox address box for a little Easter egg.

A new citizen journalism service called HappyNews: links only to happy news “geared to lift spirits and inspire lives.”

“Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive”

The world can certainly do with more of that…. also sports an RSS feed

(via Micro Persuasion)

‘ just picked up on some interesting thoughts by Jeff Jarvis:

There are two kinds of stuff on the internet:

* Resources and articles and other static gems.

* Feeds and lists and conversations and other dynamic goodies.

Even that is a quite imperfect bucketing of the wonders of online but stay with me for a second, for it’s at least a useful means of distinguishing some fundamental aspects of Web 1.0 from 2.0 and what’s coming next and what’s needed…

Lists: A new means of creating, finding, organizing, aggregating, communicating, recommending, acting, marketing, consuming…

Feedthink. I like it.

You have been put on notice: the browser wars are over. Moz doesn’t matter. IE is irrelevant. Opera is doing a swan song. Why? In a word, iTunes. And the implications for everyone from Web publishers to you, the hyper-clocked tricked-out geek, are enormous. In fact, being the hyper geek means you can cash in on this trend now. You heard it here first.

An unlikely sounding take on the direction web based content might be taking over at Tom’s Hardware Guide - that is, at first glance - but then, given a little more thought, it might not be so unlikely after all…

(via digg/software)

Joshua Schachter reports on del.icio.us blog about a new tagging feature:

We’ve just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use “for:username” where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to.

You can see items tagged for you at del.icio.us/for/ (it’ll redirect to your own page, which other users will not be able to see.)

(via del.icio.us/steverubel)

iTunes metadata support for podcasts was announced on Burning Questions, the Official FeedBurner Weblog:

What does this service mean for you, gentle podcaster? It means you only have to go to one place - your favorite place - (that would be FeedBurner) to manage all of the descriptive data for your podcast. It means we will manage all of your iTunes and Media RSS metadata for you, so that you don’t have to manually edit or alter XML templates to support a variety of overlapping namespace extensions. It means that your podcasts will be fully described in iTunes, Odeo, and any other directory service leveraging the iTunes namespace extensions, and that your rich media feeds will be correctly indexed by Yahoo!, Ourmedia, and others.

Check the Quick Start for Podcasters

(via digg/links)

RSSContact

allows individuals to share their personal contact information among family, friends, and colleagues - utilizing the latest in Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. With RSSContact, you will be able to:

* Share your personal contact information in real-time with unlimited users.
* Control who sees your information. Ability to display or hide specific fields.
* Create RSS feeds that show your business and personal contact card information.
* Invite your friends, family and colleagues to subscribe to your RSSContact Channel.
* Automatically display changes and updates to subscribers in real-time.
* Create contact cards that your subscribers can import into MS Outlook (VCF Card).
* Bypass problems with firewalls and SPAM filters. Your information gets through.

(via Waxy.org)